has developed a taxonomy for medication errors for the recording and tracking of errors. General reporting programs (not specific to medications) include JCAHO's sentinel events reporting program and some state programs.

11. Billings, Charles, "Incident Reporting Systems in Medicine and Experience With the Aviation Safety Reporting System," Appendix B in A Tale of Two Stories, Richard Cook, David Woods and Charlotte Miller, Chicago: National Health Care Safety Council of the National Patient Safety Foundation at the AMA, 1998.

18. As part of the FDA Modernization Act of 1997, the FDA is mandated to shift from a universal mandatory reporting system for users (hospitals and nursing homes) of medical devices to one where only a subset of facilities report. In their pilot test, they believed that faster and better feedback to reporters contributed to improved reporting. FDA, May 1999. See also: Susan Gardner, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, personal communication, November 24, 1998.

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